where to request a newer package version?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:54 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 00:50 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> > > Robert P. J. Day wrote, at 08/14/2008 12:24 AM +9:00:
> > > >   is there a specific bugzilla page where one requests the RPMifying
> > > > of the newer version of an existing package?  thanks.
> > > >
> > > > rday
> > > > --
> > >
> > > Please go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/index.cgi and file a new bug
> > > with the Component you want to upgrade and with the Summary
> > > "RFE: upgrade foo to version XXXXX" or so.
> > ----
> > there are no specific pages for RFE's but rather the obligation to
> > search to see if a similar request already exists (and add to it) or if
> > not, then create your own entry.
> >
> > Some things to consider when requesting a newer version...
> >
> > - Detail which features the newer version has that the current one
> > doesn't have.
> >
> > - Provide links to information on the updated package/features
> >
> > - Try downloading the current SRPM and installing it, then getting the
> > newer tarball and swapping that for the one in the SRPM and then
> > building it, even installing it if possible, to see what challenges the
> > packager would have to deal with (if any).
> >
> > Craig
> 
> just to turn this into a concrete example, i was after
> subversion-1.5.1.  currently, the latest version for f9 appears to be
> this one:
> 
> $ rpm -q subversion
> subversion-1.4.6-7.i386
> $
> 
>   but then i found this page:
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=752
> 
> which appears to suggest that 1.5.1 does indeed exist for f9.  i'm
> just not sure how to interpret that page -- doesn't it imply that
> subversion has been successfully packaged for f9?
----
you picked an interesting test case to be sure because on RHEL, they are
indeed using subversion-1.5.1 but on Fedora, 1.5.1 is only available in
updates-testing

Craig